Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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of the people that cant install Linux or seem to think Linux is the messiah that will make my PC run like hell and produce grape juice out of a USB port. I mean WTH is wrong with this, we get a "i can do" and a "i cant do it" article every day. Is it just to get more comments on articles? And what is it with these people that have new hardware and it doesnt work in Linux? At the bottom is my system configuration and it worked out of the box with RedHat 9 (and RedHat 8) everything, i mean every device I had. So You people expect that every obscure USB modem will work? "well it works in XP", well keep XP then, you want choice, be prepared to learn some things and actually DO something, you dont want choice but the crashes etc with XP or 2K or (god forbid) Win9X then stay MS. This is getting so annoying and boring to read about people that a) have no clue but expect everything to go peachy (what you just bought a cheap a** PC for xmas?) b) Have some clue but are not prepared to invest any time into LEARNING something new. Screw the windows ways, forget what you knew. start reading!! (yes i know its a drag, but you really just got your drivers license without learning, right?) and c) people that if something doesnt work are too lazy to search google, but if something doesnt work in XP they are happy to search the net for hours to get the newest drivers and try it with that.
Ok, I run Linux 100% at home and so is my Wife, she's happy, she is stillg etting used to it and still has doubts and questions but after all, it was HER choice to run it (i really had nothing to do with it) and its HER choice to learn how to use things. Hell , she found out some key combination that i didnt know. So, please no more of these "Linux is not ready /is ready for the desktop " bullshit stories. I really think people take this Linux-thing too far. Anyway, just my 2 Cents.
My Sysconfig:
*Asus P4Pe Motherboard with Firewire and USB2 support (both recognized and working out of the box)
*onboard sound, works but i disabled it and use a sblive
*onboard LAN, works but disabled for my trusty 3com card
*P4 2,8Ghz
*SBLIVE (as mentioned
*3Com 905C
*Ati Radeon 9500 Pro
*1GB DDR Ram
*WinTV Radio Card, works like a charm however i havent tried the radio , yet since i dont listen to radio
*48X CDRW Works
*19" Hitachi 752ET Monitor, works flawlessly
*16X DVD Drive
*2X 80 GB HDD (UDMA 133)
Now, this is not the newest machine on the planet , however its ok i would say and it works well. Installed without hitches and i booted into X without a problem after reboot.
I had to install no drivers (the ati driver in RH 9 works fine and gives me 1600x1200 resolution, although bad 3D but i am no gamer) and i had no reboot as of yet. So IF you are thinking of buying a device and you ARE thinking that eventually you might wanna try something else, spend a few euros (dollars) more and get brand name or check online .
Some things i have forgotten what took me about the same amount of time to install as it would on windows: My digital Camera (mounted as a SCSI device on /dev/sda1) and my Creative Nomad (downloading gnomad and installing it was a matter of minutes. Thats it.
Anyway too much ranting, i think i said enuff.
//Vic